Feb. 4, ipogl .'^ 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
CROSSrSECTION AT A 3. 
F-OftMT AND STREAM N.Y. 
THE SAILING HOUSEBOAT SAVANILLA —MIDSHIP SECTION AND SAIL Pt7AN^ 
Designed by R. M. Munroe for John Price Wetherill. 
there are two windows in this cabin. 
On the port side of the passage there are two more 
staterooms, which are separated by a bathroom. The 
forward room is 7ft. wide by 12ft. long, and lilce the 
owner's room opposite, has two windows and is fitted 
up very much the same, only on a slightly smaller scale, 
this being necessary, as the cabin was not so large. 
The bath is 5ft. by 7ft., and has a tub, closet and set 
basni. The other stateroom is 7ft. by loft. and is ar- 
ranged very much like the others. 
Aft of this cabin is a smaller room 6ft. by 7ft., which 
is occupied by the cook and steward. Further aft is 
another room, 6ft. 6in. by 6ft., for the use of the crew. 
Here the passageway ends, and three steps lead up to 
the galley, which occupies all of the after portion of the 
vessel. The galley is under the raised poop, and the 
floor level is higher in consequence, yet the same head- 
room is obtained. The galley is i6ft. long and 17ft. 
wide. On either side there are two windows, and there 
are three in the stern, making seven all told. These, 
together with the overhead hatch, carry off all odors 
arising from the cooking. The stove is placed on the 
port side of the galley forward. In the corresponding 
place on the other side is the crews' companionway, 
under .which is the crew's water closet and wash room. 
On the port side, placed against the side of the hull, 
are a table and the sink, opposite on the starboard side 
is another table with lockers and drawers underneath. 
In the after part of the galley on either side are two 
huge refrigerators, in which a large quantity of ice 
and perishable supplies can be stowed. 
A door in the forward partition of the galley opens 
into another room used by the crew. It contains four 
berths and closets for the men's dunnage. This room 
is loft. square. 
Water tanks are provided with sufficient fall to en- 
able the water to run in the different tubs and basins 
without pumping. The total capacity of the tanks is 
over 620 gallons. 
Savanilla is 84ft. 6in. over all; 70ft. waterline; 24ft. 
extreme breadth; 19ft. breadth at waterline; freeboard 
forward, 8ft.; freeboard aft, 7ft. 8in.; least freeboard, 
5ft. 3in.; draft, with boards up, 2ft. 6in.; draft, with 
boards down, 7ft. pin. 
iTACHTING NEWS NOTES, 
i- or advertising relating to this department see pages li ana iii. 
Power Boat jMoorings. — In sheltered coves, bays and 
harbors the mooring of power boats is comparatively 
simple, a light anchor or heavy stone attached to a strong 
rope or a pile driven into the mud will usually suffice; 
but where boats are to be kept in places raked by storms 
in rough water, drifting kelp, outside of the danger of 
swamping, there is a possibility of dragging on to the 
shore or into crib work, wharf or rocks. If a mooring is 
selected as convenient, secure a heavy mushroom or an 
old fishing anchor and cut off one fluke even with the 
shank, if the water is so shallow that there is a possi- 
bility of the boat ever grounding upon it, or to keep the 
chain from fouling it. Attach by means of a proper 
shackle a piece of chain of good size about twice or three 
times the depth of the water at high tide. To a ring or 
shackle in the other end of the chain attach a good 
strong rope long enough to allow the chain to He on 
bottoni and permit the buoy to float easily at all stages of 
the tide. The upper end of the rope can be attached to 
the buoy securely near the end and a thimble and eye 
spliced into the extreme end. Both ends of the rope 
should be carefully served with canvas and marline to 
prevent chafing. A good strong snap-hook in the end of 
a short painter securely attached to a ring-bolt, strong 
cleat or Samson post on the boat with canvas and 
marline to protect it where it passes through the chock 
and where it is ever likely to come in contact with the 
stem is highly important There is one essential thing 
to_ do, however, at least by August 15 or just after the 
middle of the season, and that is to renew the rope connect- 
ing the chain with the buoy; for there is so much decay- 
ing vegetable matter in the water during August that a 
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rope is likely to rot and become unsafe. If the rope . is 
carefully washed and dried and kept from getting wet 
while stored, two ropes will easily last two seasons, while 
; a single rope, unless it is carefully dried once or twice, 
ought not be depended upon. Relying upon an anchor 
with accompanying dirt and muss on deck, its liability to 
foul, trip, etc., is extremely dangerous, and if found 
necessary to use even temporarily, should be examined 
every day to see that it is clear. Simple precautions in 
this way take very little time, and will often save con- 
siderable trouble, expense and loss of pleasurable cruises. 
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ri-iE Week-End Yachtsman.— The major portion of 
the yachting fraternity has been dubbed, not in derision, 
but with all due respect, the week-end yachtsman. He 
it IS who labors diligently during the hot summer days 
until the Saturday half-holiday permits of his release 
from business cares and worries, when he hies himself 
,;- with his family or friends to the mooring place of his 
boat which may range in size from the uncouth flat- 
bottomed batteau to the shapely auxiliary sloop or 
schooner, or the perhaps fine-lined yacht. iVIore likely 
of late years he has become the proud possessor of a 
- power launch, which with infinite care and pains he has 
put into commission, equipped with a gasolene engine, 
remodeling some sailboat, perhaps; and if size and 
, finances will permit he has built a cabin for at least partial 
■ shelter, and instead of the occasional run, he is ready for 
cruising. 
What is there about the word that awakens in us all 
feelings of. pleasure, memories of thunder tempests and 
downpours of rain, hard work, blistered backs, and per- 
haps raw or half-cooked food ? Did you ever see a crowd 
of this sort get ready to embark that you were not en- 
vious of the enjoyment that they foresaw and con- 
templated.'' Unless you have been on just such trips, you 
cannot begin to realize the pleasures to be derived from 
theni. A day and a half finishing up the week's work and 
on which to begin the following is the ideal, I might truly 
say, of one-half the laboring people of every seashore 
city. Independence, democracy, simplicity and good fel- 
j lowship go hand-in-hand. Care is cast to the winds, new 
-;. fields for exploration, different scenes, fishing perhaps 
wet clothing— but who cares ? Early to bed and possibly 
glad to get up, take a dip and straighten out kinked 
uacks. 
The power boat has accomplished what the sailing yacht 
never could— furnishing, as it does, a means of recreation 
where the maximum time between the weeks can be put 
tc- best account. The average week-end yachtsman of 
^ Greater New York needs no hints from his brethren in 
sister cities as to how to enjoy his outings; give him the 
, means with which to follow his inclinations in that 
direction. 
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E. E. LoRiLLARD TO Serve ON New York Y C 's Race 
' Committee.— Mr. Ernest E. Lorillard has been appointed 
a member of the New York Y. C. Regatta Committee. 
Mr. Lorillard will fill the place made vacant by the resig- 
nation of Mr. C. L. F. Robinson. The other two mem- 
bers of the committee are Messrs. H. de B. Parsons and 
Oliver E. Cromwell. 
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Gilbert's Bar Y. C. Meeting.— The annual meeting of 
. the Gilbert's Bar Y. C, of Dade county, Florida, was held 
' at the club house early in January and the following offi- 
■ cers were elected : Com., H. E. Sewall, of Sewall's Point, 
l^la. ; Vice-Com., Harry Jennings, of Tibbals, Fla. ; Sec'y 
and freas., C. S. Schuyler, of Jensen, Fla.; Meas H W 
• Bessey, of Stuart, Fla., and Flag Officer, Jerome Twichell' 
or Sewall's Point, Fla. All correspondence should be 
addressed to the club at Sewall's Point. 
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■ ]\'[ayflower Again Sold.— Mr. E. S. Reiss, who pur- 
chased the schooner Mayflower a short time ago has sold 
Irer to Mr. George B. Campbell, through Mr. Frank 
Bowne Jones' agency. 
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Vigilant Sold.— Mr. F. Lothrop Ames has sold the 
yawl Vigilant to Mr. Stephen Peabody. Mr. Ames will 
put the sloop Shark in commission next season, and it is 
barely possible that she will meet Humma. recently pur- 
chased by^Ir. R. W. Emmons, and Altair, as the New 
v-°!^ J V^^^ ^° combine with that of the Eastern 
1 . C, and a long, cruise down the Maine coast is planned. 
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^ Cutter' Gloria Sold.— The Pavne-designed cutter 
Gloria has been sold by Mr. H. E. McLecd, of the Royal 
Canadian Y. C, to a syndicate of Halifax yachtsmen. 
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Recent Sales.— Mr. George E. Bartol, of Philadelphia, 
has sold his 50ft. auxiliary yawl Arelar through the 
agency of INIacconnell & Cook, to Mr Charles H Ea^-le 
secretary of the Atlantic Y. C. The same agency has sold 
the sloop Banshee for Mr. Henry Dascher'to Mr. Parke 
G. Sedley, of New York; the soft, cruising launch owned 
by Mr. Bernard W. Duke, of Baltimore, to Professor C 
1:1. Ellard, of Columbia University. 
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. The First National Motorboat Exhibition —An- 
nouncement is made that the opening night of the first 
National Motorboat Exhibition to be given this year in 
Madison Square Garden, New York city, in conjunction 
with the Sportsmen's Show, will be made more interesting 
by the attendance of prominent naval officials, and oi 
con-.modores of the leading yacht clubs. Gentlemen 
prominent m water sports have accepted invitations to 
act as patrons on the opening night, and in their honor 
the Garaen will be gaily decorated with yacht club pen- 
nants, which are being received from clubs f-om all over 
the country. At the exhibition this year, which opens 
>eDruary 21, certain nights will be assigned to the yacht 
clubs, and from distant points members have arrano-^d 
to visit New York on special cars, so that the ncnasio'n 
should be the greatest gathering of vachtsmen that has 
been known m some years. 
At the Garden, in connection with the National Motor- 
boat Exhibition and Sportsmen's Show, will be shown 
